1690s in architecture

Buildings • 1690 • The Sindone Chapel in Turin, Piedmont, designed by Guarino Guarini is completed. • The Barrage Vauban, designed by Vauban and built by Jacques Tarade in Strasbourg, France, is completed • 1690–1700 – Two Baroque palaces in Vilnius, Sapieha Palace and Slushko Palace, designed by Pietro Perti, are erected. • 1689–1691 – Swallowfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, England, designed by William Talman, is built. • 1691–1697 – Branicki Palace, Białystok, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built. • 1692 • St. Kazimierz Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed. • Theatine Church, Munich, Bavaria, designed by Agostino Barelli in 1662, is substantially completed to the design of Enrico Zuccalli. • 1694 • The Potala Palace in Lhasa is completed by construction of the Potrang Marpo ('Red Palace'). • The Radziejowski Palace in Nieborów, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built. • The Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin, begun by Amedeo di Castellamonte in 1668, is completed to the design of Guarino Guarini. • 1695 – Wren Library, the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed. • 1695–1699 – Craigiehall, near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce. • 1696 • Main façades of Chatsworth House completed to designs of William Talman in a pioneering English Baroque style. • Library of The Queen's College, Oxford, designed locally, is completed. • Construction of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna to the design of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach begins. • 1697 – Trinity Cathedral in Solikamsk, Russia (begun 1683), is completed. • 1698 – Fortified town of Neuf-Brisach in Alsace, designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, is begun. • 1699 – Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England (completed 1712), designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is begun. ==Events==

• 1696 – Window tax is introduced in England. • 1697: May 7 – The 13th century royal Tre Kronor ("Three Crowns") castle in Stockholm burns to the ground; the plan for the replacement Stockholm Palace by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger is presented a few weeks later. ==Births==

• 1690 – Richard Cassels, German-born architect working in Ireland (died 1751) • 1691 • June 17 – Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (died 1765) • September 1 – James Burrough, English academic, amateur architect and antiquary (died 1764) • 1692 – Pietro Antonio Trezzini, Swiss architect working in Saint Petersburg (died after 1760) • 1693 • January 29 – Henry, Lord Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke, English courtier and architect (died 1749) • September 13 – Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, Viennese architect (died 1742) • 1694 • April 25 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English aristocrat and architect (died 1753) • September 26 – Martin Schmid, Swiss Jesuit missionary, musician and architect working in Bolivia (died 1772) • 1695 • April 19 – Roger Morris, English architect (died 1749) • October 23 – François de Cuvilliés, Walloon-born dwarf and architect working in Bavaria (died 1768) • 1696: September 14 (bapt.) – Batty Langley, English garden architect (died 1751) • 1698: October 23 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (died 1782) • 1699 • Edward Lovett Pearce, Irish architect (died 1733) • (probable date) – Matthew Brettingham, English architect (died 1769) ==Deaths==

• 1691: February 8 – Carlo Rainaldi, Roman architect (born 1611) ==References==